{"id":1696,"date":"2012-06-23T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T23:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2012-06-23T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T23:01:57","slug":"a-little-english-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/a-little-english-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little English Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIt&#8217;s always been <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/1458\" title=\"Elusive Monkey Shines\">tricky to capture<\/a> the cheerful essence of the Little Monkey, but now he&#8217;s mobile it&#8217;s even harder. Fortunately, messing around with photos to make them look grainy and out-of-focus is <em>de rigeur<\/em> lately, so I&#8217;ve taken advantage of the trend with these pics of the wee England supporter.\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1697\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A Little English Monkey\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey1.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Little English Monkey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1698\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1698\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"&quot;Is it always this tortuous, Dad?&quot;\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey2.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Is it always this tortuous, Dad?&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1699\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"&quot;Well, yes, but the rare glimpses of glory are glorious indeed, son.&quot;\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Well, yes, but the rare glimpses of glory<br \/>are glorious indeed, son.&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style='clear:both'>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1700\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey4-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ball!\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey4-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey4.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ball!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1701\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1701\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey5-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"&quot;Come on England!&quot;\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey5-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/england_monkey5.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Come on England!&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style='clear:both'>\nSo far England have a 100% success rate when the Little Monkey wears his England top (it was still in the post for the France game). Fingers crossed for Italy, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always been tricky to capture the cheerful essence of the Little Monkey, but now he&#8217;s mobile it&#8217;s even harder. Fortunately, messing around with photos to make them look grainy and out-of-focus is de rigeur lately, so I&#8217;ve taken advantage of the trend with these pics of the wee England supporter. So far England have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paternal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}